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Authenticity Quotes
"Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you."
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"Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak."
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
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"Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance."
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"If you want to lead people, but you have problems in being authentic, you ve lost."
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"What if pretending is interfering with the person you're meant to be? he said."
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"When I meet someone who is truly genuine, I am drawn to their personality and find them easier to approach, engage, and interact with. They have no hint of false pretense, nor do I worry about hidden agendas."
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"And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad... Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them."
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"I don't care to be pretty, Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside."
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"Most people play someone else's role or wear mask of other people because they don't think about what they are created for."
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"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true."
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"If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real."
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"Never make an excuse for being yourself, no one's going to do it better."
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"Who are you not to be yourself?"
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"A bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground..."
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"Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliche that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion."
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"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."
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"A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long."
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"In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be."
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"Maybe it's easier to conform, to stay in a job I hate to pay bills of the things I don't even enjoy and marry a man I'm not passionately in love with, whilst surrounded by those who have absolutely no life to their smile but I don't want easy. I never have. I want a life so fucking grande' I reach every little milestone in sweats or tears knowing I Followed what was true to my heart. I don't care if I walk alone for the rest of my days, if it means I get to stay true to myself."
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"Originality is the death of mediocrity."
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"A 'biomass' man tries to look good on the outside but inside he is afraid of himself."
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"Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don't live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams."
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"Do what is best for you--no matter what others think."
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"It takes courage to become authentic. So many talk about the light but not enough speak the truth about the struggles it takes to get there and the tools to overcome it all."
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"I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who choose to fake perfection."
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"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained."
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"You like a person not because of what they have but for what they truly are."
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"An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life."
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"I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you."
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"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."
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"I have a fear of living a surface kind of life; barely existing, barely touching or tasting anything. That's why you'll always see me giving my all or walking away ~ I'm too full of depth to dance in the middle of anything."
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"There is error in a church when miracles are made the only thing."
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"When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach."
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"Don't count on cheerleaders once you start living a life more reflective of your truth. They may not want to do somersaults and backflips for your awakening, not when they're still asleep. Don't let that stop you. Most of us have only been trained to cheer for conformity, to commend those who are just like us. But aren't you bored of being congratulated for fitting in? Aren't you tired of ignoring your heart's requests?Don't wait for cheerleaders. Be grateful if they show up, but you show up regardless, with or without them.You will never be defined by the reception you get from others, only by the truth with which you receive yourself. Be your biggest cheerleader. Love yourself. And applaud every single step you take toward truth."
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"Be yourself, don't try to be someone else. And the right people will love you for who you are."
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"But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating."
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"The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences to him and to those whom he loves. This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history. Their names are not remembered, nor did these authentic humans expect their names to be remembered. I see their authenticity in an odd way: not in their willingness to perform great heroic deeds but in their quiet refusals. In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not."
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"There is something original in every one of us."
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"Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside."
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"Let's quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we've never really been."
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"Many of us have gotten so used to playing to the expectations of society, of our families,of our friends, and of our minds, that we don't even allow ourselves to consider who we really are or what we really need. We ignore the callsof our hearts, giving our lives, instead, to thedemands of an outside world built on fitting in.We can stop this, right now. We can choose to listen to ourselves, to heed our deepest callings,whatever they are. We can give ourselves thefreedom to be whoever the hell we want to bein this world. Right now, if we choose to.And why wouldn't we?"
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"Love just feels like the truth."
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"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."
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"Become the real you, only then will you be happy."
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"How different would people act if they couldn't show off on social media? Would they still do it?"
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"You weren't born to be a product of societal and peer pressures. However, you have to first understand that your presence on earth matters, because your life has a very unique purpose. Therefore, be comfortable with parading your true positive self, accompanied with an undying faith in God's guidance and protection."
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